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Home / India / Further probe 84 riots case against Tytler, court to CBI
New Delhi : A court here on Friday refused to accept the closure report and directed the CBI
to conduct further investigation into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against Congress leader
Jagdish Tytler.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler ordered the Central
Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct further investigations and refused to accept the
closure report that gives Tytler a clean chit.
The court also directed CBI to verify the facts given by businessman and arms dealer Abhishek
Verma, who was cited as a witness in the closure report.
Abhishek Verma in his statement told the CBI that Tytler had told him in 2008 that he had met
the then prime minister after which he got a clean chit for his alleged role in a 1984 anti-Sikh
riots case.
Verma also stated that Tytler had tried to influence one of the witnesses by giving him a hefty
sum of money and promising to settle his son abroad. The court also directed CBI to record the
statements of other witnesses in the case.
On the last hearing, the CBI also submitted that it was prepared to investigate the matter further
on the courts permission.
The CBIs statement came while replying to an application filed by the Shiromani Akali Dal
in which the party told the court that it would provide the addresses of three material witnesses.
The CBI had earlier informed the court that these witnesses were not traceable.
Advocate H.S. Phoolka, appearing for victim/complainant Lakhvinder Kaur, whose husband
Badal Singh was killed during the riots, said that in view of the seriousness of the offence, the
court should not accept the closure report.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Kaur against the CBIs closure report its third
giving a clean chit to Tytler for his alleged role in the violence.
Phoolka said the CBIs investigation was faulty, tainted, dishonest and perfunctory.
Earlier, the agency gave a clean chit to the Congress leader twice.
In April 2013, a sessions court rejected a closure report and ordered the agency to further
investigate the killings.
The CBI did that, but filed another closure report on December 24, 2014, saying there was
insufficient evidence to proceed against Tytler. IANS
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Published: December 5, 2015 00:00 IST | Updated: December 5, 2015 05:45 IST NEW DELHI, De
Nirnimesh Kumar
Rejecting the clean chit given to senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in an anti-Sikh riot case, a D
further investigate it.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate SPS Laler in his re-investigation order also said that the c
As closure report in this case has been filed several times, hence the court is of the opinion that it w
investigation is monitored by the court on bi-monthly basis so that no aspect of the case is left un-in
directed to conduct further investigation in the present case, Mr. Laler said.
Stating that the complainant in the case, Lakhwinder Kaur, had submitted the names and addresses
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court said: Admittedly, further investigation is required in the present case to examine more eye-w
investigation is also required to find out whether the two said witnesses were actually present at the
Lakhwinder Kaur is the wife of a man who was killed by a mob along with two others at Gurdwara P
has accused Mr. Tytler of inciting the mob. The riots had broken out in the wake of the assassinatio
Gandhi.
The CBI had earlier sought to close the case in 2007 and 2009 but the court had rejected it and ord
rejection of the CBI plea to close the case.
The court also directed the probe agency to thoroughly investigate the statement of Abhishek Verm
active role played by Jagdish Tytler in sending out Narinder Singh, son of key witness Surinder Sing
The phone number of Narinder Singh is available on court record which CBI can collect, the court s
The allegations are that businessman Abhishek Verma, son of the late Congress MP Srikant Verma,
investigating agency that Mr. Tytler had paid about rupees one crore to Surinder Singh Granthi and
Narinder Singh to Canada under a deal to make a statement in his favour.
Vermas statement is based on what Mr. Tytler had told him during a meeting in August or Septemb
The CBI in its closure report had said that the evidence by Abhishek Verma indicates that Jagdish T
witness; however, it could not be verified as the witness has since expired.
The CBI had earlier sought to close
the case in 2007 and 2009
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